The past that Southerners are forever talking about is not a dead past--it is a chapter from the legend that our kinfolks have told us, it is a living past, living for a reason. The past is a part of the present, it is a comfort, a guide, a lesson. Ben Robertson
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
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Siri Hustvedt
In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
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Zadie Smith
The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind.
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Clare Francis
Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come...
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A.E. Housman
More Quotes By Ben Robertson
It was not the goal that really concerned us, the journey was the thing. Who ever reaches any goal? From what journey can we return? We know of the poverty about us, of the work and worry, but we know of a degree of freedom,...
We have been told to ask about everything: Will it leave us free?
The past that Southerners are forever talking about is not a dead past--it is a chapter from the legend that our kinfolks have told us, it is a living past, living for a reason. The past is a part of the present, it is a...
My kinfolks thought more about character than about culture. They said culture could be acquired but character had to be formed. Character had to be hammered into shape like hot iron on an anvil. It had to be molded in the most exact and unrelenting...
It is a great comfort to a rambling people to know that somewhere there is a permanent home--perhaps it is the most final of the comforts they ever really know.
